Chilly and Light-headed
So it's only been a few days since surgery and I am feeling light-headed whenever I stand up. I also am cold all the time. It's not fever chills and I have no temperature. My pulse is normal. I just like...get really cold. I am used to being always overheated, so it is strange. I will call the surgeon bright and early tomorrow (of course), but I was wondering if anyone else experienced similar. I'm not in any pain and tolerate liquid 100%.
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
on 6/28/15 5:35 pm
If you're on BP meds, you may be experiencing dizziness when you get up because your BP tends to go down after surgery. Call your surgeon to see if you need to eliminate or reduce BP meds. If you're not on them, other posters here suggest adding more salt to your diet to up your BP. Either way, call your surgeon.
As for being chilly, other posters will have to help you, although after being on this forum for a few months, I've read several times that chilliness is a common after-effect of surgery, too.
psychoticparrot
"Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away."
What the parrot said....I hadn't lost a pound and within 10 days I was off my BP meds. I always, always, always have been warm. Its summer, I wear tee shirts under my clothes and now fairly often wear long pants golfing. I used to avoid sport jackets in the summer and now it doesn't bother me. I walked 5.3 miles today and wore three layer...get used to being cold :)
